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Not in unbelief -- Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type. He wrote: "I wish I had never been born."
Not in money --
Jay Gould, the American millionaire, had plenty of that. When dying he
said: "I suppose I am the most miserable man on earth."
Not in position and fame --
Lord Beaconsfield enjoyed more than his share of both. He wrote: "Youth
is a mistake; manhood, a struggle; old age, a regret."
Where, then, is happiness found? The answer is simple: In your Christ and mine . He said, "I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man can taketh from you." Not in military glory -- Alexander the Great conquered the known world in his day. Having done so, he wept, because, he said, "There are no more worlds to conquer." Not in pleasure -- Lord Byron lived a life of pleasure, if anyone did. He wrote: "The worm, the canker, and the grief are mine alone."
Where, then, is happiness found? The answer is simple: In your Christ and mine . He said, "I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man can taketh from you." Not in military glory -- Alexander the Great conquered the known world in his day. Having done so, he wept, because, he said, "There are no more worlds to conquer." Not in pleasure -- Lord Byron lived a life of pleasure, if anyone did. He wrote: "The worm, the canker, and the grief are mine alone."
As I watched him I could see the tension in his face and how he held his body and I thought of something I just read by a Dr. Julian Lake.
The
good doctor had set up two groups; in the first group were people who
were unable to relax and in the second group were those who were
relatively free from tension.
They
discovered that the tense people had one thing in common which was not
prevalent among the relaxed group--- they were all extremely critical of
others.
It’s really quite simple.
When you love your neighbor and make an effort to at least understand he or she, even if they are not acting neighborly, you feel better.
If you are always finding fault when your complain your complaint becomes a sword slicing away at your emotional stability and making it an open wound.
The old founding Father Benjamin Franklin put it well, “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”
Actually, a great deal of criticism is born of envy. Someone has what we don’t have and we, if not careful, have a need to put them down as a way of lifting ourselves up.
Ah, my friends…
There is so much good
In the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us,
To talk about the rest of us.
There
is the classic story about the boss who received a note from one of his
many employees with just one word written on it, “Fool.” He
then gathered his workers together and said, “I have from time to time
down through the years gotten some notes with no signature,” and then
shared the note he held in hand, “but this is the first time anyone ever
signed their name and forgot to write the note.”
The terrible thing about being a professional in the art of finding fault with other people is that while we are seldom seeing any good in people we are seldom seeing much good in life either. It is little wonder that criticizers lead the list of ulcer victims.
And one last comment on what people are always complaining about these days; our armed forces and our government. Have you ever run a bank? Have you ever led an Army? When you criticize the way things are being done in America perhaps you should educate yourself in these areas before criticizing. I
know from personal experience that when I have stopped and looked more
closely at some of my complaints I realized I really didn’t know what I
was talking about.
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Would it have made any difference if the man who was President of the United States
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